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Praveen Vadla

Associate Manager HR
Hyderabad
Praveen Vadla

Summary

In pursuit of challenging and enriching assignments in recruitment with an organization of high repute, looking for long-term career with organization.

Talent Acquisition professional with 12+ years of experience in end-to-end Technical Recruitment across Global Capability Centers (GCCs), Product Engineering, and IT Services organizations. - Expertise in hiring Software Engineering talent across all levels, including Developers, SDETs, Data Engineers, Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Delivery Managers, Project Managers, SAFe Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers. - Strong business partner with proven experience collaborating with Business Unit Heads, Hiring Managers, and Leadership teams to deliver strategic hiring outcomes. - Experienced in managing the complete recruitment lifecycle, from workforce planning and talent sourcing to offer management and onboarding. - Skilled in recruitment analytics and data-driven decision-making through executive hiring dashboards, KPI reporting, and hiring reviews using Zoho Analytics. - Demonstrated success in stakeholder management, employer branding, diversity hiring, recruitment process improvement, and talent pipeline development. - An effective communicator with strong analytical, problem-solving, and relationship management skills

Overview

13
years of professional experience

Work History

Colruyt Group

Associate Manager HR (IC Role)
08.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Lead end-to-end recruitment for Software Engineering positions across multiple experience levels, from individual contributors to leadership roles.
  • Manage hiring for Business Unit 1 (Data Management, Testing, Application Development & Support) and Business Unit 3 (Software Development, SDET, Solution Architects, Enterprise Solution Architects, Delivery Managers, Project Managers, Safe Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers).
  • Own the complete recruitment lifecycle, including requirement gathering, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management, candidate engagement, offer acceptance, and onboarding.
  • Partner closely with Business Unit Heads, Hiring Managers, and Leadership teams to understand workforce requirements and deliver quality talent within defined timelines.
  • Consistently close critical and niche positions with reduced turnaround time (TAT) while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience.
  • Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships through proactive communication, hiring updates, and strategic talent advisory.
  • Develop and execute effective sourcing strategies using multiple channels, including LinkedIn, job portals, employee referrals, networking, and passive candidate engagement.
  • Drive employer branding initiatives and ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring journey.
  • Promote diversity hiring and implement innovative sourcing techniques to build strong talent pipelines.
  • Focus on recruitment cost optimization by identifying new sourcing channels, improving sourcing efficiency, and reducing dependency on external agencies.
  • Prepare and publish comprehensive weekly hiring dashboards using Zoho Analytics, providing real-time recruitment metrics, pipeline status, aging analysis, offer-to-join ratio, and hiring progress to Business Unit Heads and key stakeholders.
  • Present recruitment metrics, hiring trends, bottlenecks, and action plans during weekly Recruitment Sync-Up meetings with business leadership, enabling data-driven hiring decisions.
  • Monitor recruitment KPIs, identify process improvement opportunities, and recommend strategies to improve hiring efficiency, quality of hire, and stakeholder satisfaction
  • GCC

UST Global

Lead II HR
03.2021 - 08.2021

Job overview

  • Recruited Engineering talent for product engineering team.
  • Single point of contact for T Mobile Product Hiring.
  • Led the complete recruitment cycle which includes working closely with Senior Leadership, attracting, and selecting appropriate talent, salary negotiations and onboarding.
  • This project is 50% Diversity hiring, Fulfilled and reaches the needs.
  • Ensured great stakeholder experience by keeping them continually informed with quality communication throughout the hiring process.
  • Built strong relationships and collaborating with hiring managers to understand their unique hiring needs and goals and bring in candidates accordingly.
  • Built and managed a robust pipeline of candidates for key positions by active and direct participation in the recruitment lifecycle.
  • Developed and implemented ideas for improving the talent acquisition process and outcomes, Conducted two Major virtual mega drives.

Qentelli Solutions

Senior Recruiter
07.2019 - 01.2021

Job overview

  • Involved in End to End recruitment involving sourcing, identifying, screening, and placing Personnel in quick turn-around time for contract, contract to hire and permanent positions.
  • Partnering with business leaders of business units, to evolve & align HR priorities with Business solutions, with a key focus on employee growth and engagement.
  • Handling the requirements from Entry level to senior level management.
  • Bulk Hiring, weekend drives to close the positions within TAT.
  • Negotiating on salary, joining time in the offer stage.
  • Effective follow up on the candidates to ensure timely joining.
  • Maintaining employee's details.
  • Product Engineering

Nisum Technologies Pvt Ltd

Lead TA
11.2018 - 07.2019

Job overview

  • Involved in End to End recruitment involving sourcing, identifying, screening and placing personnel in quick turn-around time for contract, contract to hire and permanent positions.
  • Working as Individual contributor and handling team.
  • Partnering with business leaders of business units, to evolve & align HR priorities with business solutions, with a key focus on employee growth and engagement.
  • Reproduce and review biweekly, quarterly, and annual HR Dashboards, employee data and metrics.
  • Partner with BU Leaders to align overall people strategy of the Business Unit that drives employee engagement and establishes key metrics to evaluate its success.
  • Working with business leadership to determine the entry level talent requirement and develop the campus hiring strategy.
  • Handling the requirements from Entry level to senior level management.
  • Regular meeting the Hiring Managers to discuss the details about the requirements and about their hiring plan.
  • Bulk Hiring, weekend drives to close the positions within TAT.
  • Negotiating on salary, joining time in the offer stage.
  • Maintaining employee's details.

Covenant Consultants
Hyderabad

Sr. Executive - TA
06.2013 - 06.2018

Job overview

  • Involved in End to End recruitment involving sourcing, identifying, and screening.
  • Placing personnel in quick turn-around time for contract, contract to hire and permanent positions.
  • Worked at Client Locations - Amdocs (Pune), CDK (Hyd), Talentica (Bangalore) As RPO.
  • Individual Networking through people already hired.
  • Industry Mapping or Headhunting the suitable candidates for senior level positions.
  • Creating strong Database for future requirement.
  • Validating the profiles received from the team members against the job requirements and submitting them to the clients.
  • Closely follow up with client for feedback for offer release and ensure the candidate joins the client in time.
  • Collecting the required documents and credentials of the short-listed candidates and submitting them to the clients.
  • Conduct conference calls with the client's technical team for better understanding of the requirements and preparing the job specifications.
  • Following up closely with clients for short listing, scheduling the interviews and ensure the candidate takes the interview on time.
  • As a SPOC handled 8 accounts including Service and Product development companies.

Education

Jagruthi Degree and PG College

B.Sc from MECS

University Overview

GPA: 70%

Personal Information

Personal Information
Marital Status: Married

Disclaimer

Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned details are true to the best of my knowledge., Hyderabad, Telangana

Timeline

Associate Manager HR (IC Role)
Colruyt Group
08.2021 - Current
Lead II HR
UST Global
03.2021 - 08.2021
Senior Recruiter
Qentelli Solutions
07.2019 - 01.2021
Lead TA
Nisum Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2018 - 07.2019
Sr. Executive - TA
Covenant Consultants
06.2013 - 06.2018
Jagruthi Degree and PG College
B.Sc from MECS
Praveen VadlaAssociate Manager HR